Junior SRE Engineer Guadalajara Mexico
Rehire · Remote · Guadalajara ·
COMPENSATION
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- Junior SRE Engineer
- Onsite in Guadalajara
- US shift schedule
- AWS + Datadog
- Python + Terraform
Join the Reliability Engineering team of a US-based data engineering company, embedded within a financial services client's operations. You will support a regulated consumer-lending platform featuring hundreds of microservices and event-driven pipelines on AWS.
This role offers exposure to an AI-driven reliability program, including AI co-pilots for incident triage. You will work under senior guidance to operate, monitor, and improve system reliability while learning compliance frameworks in a regulated environment.
What you'll do
- Support incident response as a secondary responder using AI-driven detection tools
- Build incident timelines from metrics, logs, and traces for postmortems
- Operate and monitor AI SRE sub-agents for incident summarization and gap detection
- Maintain Datadog monitors, dashboards, and SLO definitions as code via Terraform
- Reduce alert noise using AI/ML-assisted anomaly detection and dynamic thresholds
- Support reliability of AWS workloads including ECS, EKS, Lambda, and RDS
- Identify capacity and cloud cost anomalies and attribute spend to teams
- Write automation scripts in Python and Bash against platform APIs
- Integrate reliability controls into CI/CD pipelines and create automated runbooks
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 1–3 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure
- Advanced oral and written English proficiency is required
- Hands-on exposure to AWS compute, networking, storage, and databases
- Experience with at least one observability platform, preferably Datadog
- Foundational understanding of SLI, SLO, and error-budget concepts
- Knowledge of containers (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes) and serverless models
- Beginner-to-intermediate experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
- Scripting experience in Python or Bash, including REST API consumption
- Basic Linux troubleshooting and networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS)
- Familiarity with Git workflows and CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions or Jenkins
- Understanding of incident management and on-call concepts
Nice to have
- Experience in product engineering, enterprise software, or fintech
- Awareness of compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, SOX, or GLBA
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Associate-level certification
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate certification
- Datadog Fundamentals or equivalent observability certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or KCNA certification
Stack
- AWS
- Datadog
- Terraform
- Python
- Bash
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- ECS
- Lambda
- GitHub Actions
How you'll work
- Onsite work in Guadalajara, Mexico
- Full-time contractor basis
- US shift schedule
- Salary paid in USD